Unless his belief had been monotheistic, we must attribute to him a marvellous genius and striking originality of mind, together with an independence of character still more remarkable; for it requires not only original genius to soar beyond popular superstitions, but also great force of will and lofty intrepidity to break away from them,as when Buddha renounced Brahmanism, or Socrates ridiculed the Sophists of Attica.

A stupid boy, or one with small industry or little originality, must have something drummed into him in four years, with all the splendid teaching energy that the colleges employ.

Many of his ideas bear the stamp of marked originality.

Wordsworth's critical faculty, the faculty of censorship, had developed almost step for step with the creative originality of his genius.

The pathetic, therefore, no less than the comic, in Hood's writings has all the author's peculiar originality, but has it in a higher order.

It was not till several centuries after his death, however, that his remarkable originality of genius was fully appreciated.

A whimsical originality of mind comes out also in the curious "B" of "Boz" (No. 10).

More allied to the Tuscan than to the Venetian spirit, the Umbrian masters produced a style of genuine originality.

With all our machinery shattered and ruined we shall be thrown more on individual energy and spontaneous originality of effort.

If we turn from his manner to his matter, we cannot claim for Byron any absolute originality.

No painter could live for a season in Madrid without being affected by the work of Velasquez; he might strive against the influence, fight to preserve his own eccentric originality and independence, but the very fact that for the time being he is confronted with a force, an influence, is sufficient to affect his own work, whether he accepts the influence reverentially or rejects it scoffingly.

As I watched I remember that I forgot the bad acting (the hero was quite atrocious), forgot the lapses of taste in the colour and arrangement of the play, forgot the artifices and elaborate originalities and false sincerities; there were, I have no doubt, many things in it all that were bad and meretriciousI was dreaming.

That is, of course, an over-statement; for, beside his own exquisite originality, Raffaello formed a composite style successively upon Perugino, Fra Bartolommeo, and Lionardo.

Whatever else the book may be, this much is plain on the face of itit is the work of a mind of extreme originality, depth, refinement, and power; and it is also the work of a very religious man:

It is a false originality that is singular about ordinary forms; it is only the tyro in chess who is "original" in his first move; Paul Morphy, the most inventive of players, always begins with the customary advance of the king's pawn.

Considering his great acuteness, and the frequent originality of his remarksconsidering, further, his moral earnestness, and the place which the moral aspects of things occupy in his thoughts, this is remarkable; but so it is.

The Cuisine of a woman of refinement, like her dress or her furniture, is distinguished, not for its costliness and profusion, but for a pervading air of graceful originality.

Near to the ancient Captaincy of the port, the palace of Charles III,blue and white, with an image of the immaculate conception,were assembled the unloading trucks, whose teams still preserved their ancient hybrid originality.

As modern life was most perfectly developed in France under Louis XIV., so the new classic poetry received there its most finished perfection, and, in a measure, an independent originality.

We are more disposed to break a lance with our author on the general merits of Roman literature, which, by a heresy not new with him, he sacrifices, in what appears to us a most unfair degree, on the score of its inferior originality to the Grecian.

Yet, all this is not original; but we ask, in what does the intellectual originality of the present day consist?

But for inventive originality of conception, the Dutch masters are no rivals even, certainly not, of the Italians.

He hated conversational platitudes and established conventions, and his nieces had endeared themselves to him more by their native originality and frank disregard of ordinary feminine limitations than in any other way.

As a compilation, with occasional originality, it is one of the best executed labours of the Society from whom it emanates, and who, from the multiplicity of facts here assembled, may be called "The Society for the" Condensation "of Useful Knowledge.

Mr. Heatherbloom leaned back, his gaze straight ahead, but Betty Dalrymple looked around with interest at the people of divers shades and hues, and, for the most part, in costumes of varying degrees of picturesque originality.